Dota 2 has a long and varied history, but the game we know today has some gems that are sure to make you nostalgic… if you remember them.

1) Seeing the map like this (New Bloom 2014)

Maps come and go, but New Bloom 2014 was the last time an abundance of item drops, new game modes and map changes made an ingame festival feel “real”… unless you count Diretide.

2) When IceFrog patched a team out of the metagame for 2 years

What do you do when you’re IceFrog and a team wins an International based on just one strategy and a whole lot of Kappas? You create 6.79.

3) Speed Gaming winning MLG Columbus 2013

Speed Gaming’s well documented journey with Arteezy in 2013 is perhaps the truest underdog story in Dota 2 till date; it’s something we all believed in but never thought was possible. Columbus made it happen.

4) “James is an ass, and we won’t be working with him again.”

James ‘2GD’ Harding was supposed to be the savior of the otherwise shoddily executed Shanghai Major, but after mysteriously disappearing on the second day, it turns out he pissed the wrong people off and got a meme-worthy dismissal from Lord GabeN himself, who descended unto us mortals in a reddit thread.

6) When Aui_2000’s Bounty Hunter stole Excalibur’s items from his fountain on Singstrim

7) Spamming Volvo for Diretide. No, the real Volvo

8) Alex Garlfield giving the throw order, but EG.Mason ignoring it

Picture the scenario: Alliance and EG, two teams owned by Alex Garfield, are in the same group for TI4 group stages. EG has already qualified. Alliance needs to win this one last game against EG to reach tie-breakers, which will give them hope of qualifying for the main event. Does Mason throw the game for the good of Good Game Agency?